Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

John B. JOHNSON (JOHNSON & ROWE), contractors and builders, Wilmington; born in Erie Co., 
Penn., Feb. 8, 1830; removed to Illinois in October, 1851, locating in Wilmington, his 
present home, where he engaged in contracting and building, which he has followed for 
nearly twenty-seven years; in 1868, he was employed by the Cayuga Chief Manufacturing Co., 
and spent several years in traveling throughout the Northwestern States, residing at 
Aurora during that period. Married in 1854 to Miss Anna M. JONES, who was born in 
Madison Co., N. Y.; two children by this union - William H. and Anna H. Mr. JOHNSON 
is a member of the following Masonic bodies: Wilmington Lodge, No. 208, Wilmington 
Chapter No. 142, and Joliet Commaudery, No. 4.